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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

I log on to the fediverse and see some of the only legitimate criticism of musk I've seen all year.

Just because someone is an autist doesn't mean they're a genius.

I found this sudo for windows. Really nice if you're doing some batch scripting and need some stuff to run as administrator quietly.

https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

>speaking of which, mxroute is the best

That's funny -- by pure happenstance I'm using mxroute for handling email, and it's 10/10 would recommend.

No, that's @vpzom on Pleroma

My instance is fbxl lotide.

Political violence is a dangerous tool. Its a fire that burns bright but consumes it's subject. Sometimes that's what you need (it can bring attention to that which burns when it's stuck in a dark corner, and sometimes a fire can clear dead wood clearing the soil for new growth), but often it's dazzling and ensures you're left with nothing but ashes.

Nobody wants to ask.... "What happened to Yoo?"

I'll see myself out.

Anyone who used critical thinking would realize that being strictly anti-populist is categorically incompatible with being leftist.

Populism is a political program or movement that champions, or claims to champion, the common person, usually by contrast with a real or perceived elite or establishment.

A focus on inequity between common people and elites is an explicit part of the leftist ideology in the US, and if we define the left as wanting change and progress, then there's an inherent opposition to any establishment that is presently engaging in oppression.

The antonym to populism might be elitism, where you think rather than standing with the common man you stand with elites. This was the standard ideology for a long time, with kings and nobility considering themselves (and convincing their subjects they were) better than the common man. A sort of aristocracy implied by opposing populism is the polar opposite of both historical and contemporary leftism.

In particular, Marxism is a political ideology of populism made manifest. "There are elites over there hurting the common man -- we need to take over and distribute their stuff for the benefit of the common man"

Besides Marxism, populism is implied in many leftist slogans such as "we are the 99%", "tax the rich", "eat the rich", and so on.

Even liberalism itself is somewhat populist in character, starting with a concept that all people are created equal and thus should be free to pursue their lives as they will, rather than the idea that the masses ought to defer to the will of their betters. This is a relatively unique concept throughout history which is why liberalism is relatively unique throughout history.

It seems to me that even if your leftism isn't explicitly populist, you can't claim populism is categorically evil and wrong and still support those ideas. Social equality and egalitarianism are both things inherently tied in with trying to make the lot of the common man better, often by reducing the power of elites.

I feel like boiling a crab in Pepsi max should be a worse violation of Leviticus than just eating crab...

Geez he even got the one from the back of the fridge that had the longest best before date...
Success kid meme dad goes out to get milk --- comes back with fresh milk

I thought minds fediverse support was one way, but I just saw likes coming back and I checked and saw my comment on the original story. Neat! I'm glad to see it's fediverse support improving!

Honestly, a surprisingly reasonable article.

It's always the one you host yourself.

(Wait, don't we both host our own relays?)

Why does everyone want to surgically modify baby dicks?

Leave the baby's penis alone you freaks

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It'll be a fight between two women who are going to get the job on a technicality that the Democrats are incompetent lol

Honestly, it makes me laugh when leftists are angry that disney lost the reedy creek improvement district because it should be the exact sort of thing that they would have fought against at any other point in history. It's a big business getting to form the local government of a place.

Nobody gets to create their own government. Mines don't get to do that, not since the 1800s, factories don't get to do that, but somehow Disney can do it and not only is it ok but the people who used to claim to be against big business fight for it like idiots because the TV told them to.

I'd like to throw a different idea out there, most tech companies just employ way too many damn people. What exactly does Spotify need 10,000 employees for? They do music streaming, and probably don't even run their own servers.

That's a phenomenal article.

A lot of people don't realize there's a lot of jobs other than CEO, and they need to get done if they're glamorous or not.

Like come on man, you need to fight the serpent so you can free your father from the belly of the whale!

Yeah... Hoping there's a change in leadership soon who can stop breaking the damn place, it used to be a really nice place to live.

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